Nicky Chinn talks about Sweet and Mud - 26 September 1980 • TopPop

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Nicky Chinn, born as Nicholas Barry Chinn on 16 May 1945 is an English songwriter and record producer. Together with Mike Chapman he had a long string of hit singles in the UK the Netherlands and the US in the 1970s and early 1980s, including several international number-one records. The duo wrote hits for The Sweet such as 'Funny Funny' and 'Block Buster!', Suzi Quatro, Mud, including Tiger Feet and Dyna Mite, New World, Arrows, Racey, Smokie, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis and the News and Toni Basil.
In this interview he tells about the early succes of Sweet and Mud in the Netherlands in the special 10th Anniversary edition of Toppop on 26 September 1980.
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Broadcast date: 26 September 1980

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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
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